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Borders Without Doctors
February 22, 2021 Egyptian medical students’ emails requesting university transcripts might be the most expensive one they ever send.

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Morocco’s Mixed Harvest
January 25, 2021 | McKinley Knoop In the southern Moroccan countryside, near Agadir, patchworks of large, canvas greenhouses cover hundreds of hectares of land. Inside the greenhouses, men stroll on ten-foot stilts, carefully picking ripe tomatoes to be packed and shipped to the European Union.

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Help Wanted
December 17, 2020 Getting housecleaning help in Kuwait has become expensive, and also exploitative. After new residency restrictions forced many foreign workers to leave the country, critics claim that the Kuwaiti domestic labor market has become a virtual “slave trade.”

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Influence Peddlers
November 18, 2020 Some children want to grow up to be astronauts or firemen, and others want to be doctors. But in the Middle East, like in the rest of the world, some actually grow up to be social media “influencers.”

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A Hard Pill to Swallow
October 19, 2020 | McKinley Knoop Last May, a trio of bustling nurses surrounded a Covid-19 patient in Bahrain.

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Perils of the Sea
September 15, 2020 As fishing skiffs cruise through Yemeni waters, seagulls aren’t the only thing circling overhead. When Saudi-led coalition helicopters patrol the coast, sailors routinely wave white cloths and lift their hands in surrender—sometimes to no avail.

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Baby Boom or Bust
June 24, 2020 Being single in Iran could become very expensive if a conservative cleric gets his way.

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Home Grown
April 27, 2020 | McKinley Knoop As Turkey and Iran struggle economically, they have flooded towns across Iraq with cheap manufactured goods and produce.

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The New Housewives of Egypt
March 16, 2020 In December, a group of Egyptian women launched the Facebook group, “Has anyone seen my husband?” to expose unfaithful men.

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The DNA of Moroccan Society
February 24, 2020 Street children are an unfortunately common presence on Morocco’s city streets. In many cases, the children are reportedly illegitimate and abandoned by unwed mothers with no father in sight.

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The Role of LNG in the United States’ Indo-Pacific Strategy
October 24, 2019 | Nikos Tsafos CSIS’s Nikos Tsafos discusses the origins, goals, and limits of LNG’s role in the Trump administration’s U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy in his essay as part of the National Bureau of Asian Research’s recent special report.

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The Evening: POTUS at UN, Saudi Arabia, Robert Hunter and More
September 24, 2019 This edition of CSIS's nightly newsletter covers POTUS at UN, Saudi Arabia, Robert Hunter and More.

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